Deutsch homophones
schafft/Schaft
"schafft" is a verb; "Schaft" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #38 of 483 German groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "schafft" arrives as a verb, while "Schaft" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "schaf" then splits - "schafft" (7 letters) vs "Schaft" (6).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across schafft, Schaft: acfhst. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
schafft
7 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCCVCCC
Inventory acfhst · no private letters vs siblings
Schaft
6 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCCVCC
Inventory acfhst · no private letters vs siblings
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "schafft" when you mean: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs schaffen
- Write "Schaft" when you mean: ein Griff an einer Stange und an anderen länglichen Gegenständen
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.